Model

Contemporânea Repinique

The bateria's calling drum

The repinique is the drum the leader plays to call a samba school in and out of sections, high-pitched and played with one hand and one stick.

Category

  • Hand Percussion

    Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.

Made by

  • Contemporânea

    Contemporânea makes the instruments of the Rio bateria — surdos, repiniques, tamborims, caixas, and pandeiros — in Brazil, and supplies escolas de samba as well as the European samba scene.